Insilico Medicine's rentosertib, a lung disease drug whose target and molecule were both discovered by generative AI, has entered Phase III trials after showing measurable lung-function gains in an earlier study.
Atlantic Health and K Health launched PatientGPT, an AI tool wired into MyChart medical records, to help 7.5 million New Jersey residents get guided to the right level of care.
Advocate Health, Mount Sinai, Northwell and nine other health systems caring for nearly 20 million patients a year have formed a Diagnostic AI Consortium with Aidoc to standardize how AI is used in radiology.
Eight Sleep reached a $1.5 billion valuation in 2026 on the strength of an AI model trained on over a billion hours of sleep data, and has filed with the FDA for Class II clearance to detect sleep apnea.
Apple shipped a redesigned Health app and better sleep tracking in watchOS 27 at WWDC 2026 but delayed its AI health coach, Project Mulberry, saying it wants more reliable sensor data first.
Samsung's June 2026 Samsung Health update introduces Vitals, Heart Health Score, Daily Cardio Load, and Fitness Index, analyzing five overnight bio-signals ahead of a new Galaxy Watch unveiled July 22.
Eli Lilly has launched LillyPod, a 1,016-GPU NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra supercomputer delivering over 9,000 petaflops, which the company describes as the largest AI system owned outright by a pharmaceutical company, to accelerate drug discovery and genomics research.
Aerial photography analysis reported by Electrek on August 12, 2026 found nearly 1,000 Waymo Ojai robotaxis staged at the company's Arizona factory as weekly paid rides approach 500,000, part of a buildup toward a 1-million-ride weekly target and expansion into more than 20 new cities.
Twelve major U.S. health systems, serving nearly 20 million patients a year, announced on August 11, 2026 that they are forming a Diagnostic AI Consortium with Aidoc to test and share AI-enabled diagnostic workflows amid a worsening radiologist shortage.
A Hong Kong University of Science and Technology-led team published a Nature Cancer study on an AI system called PRET that recognizes 18 cancer types from as few as one to eight slides, beating 11 human pathologists on lymph node metastasis detection, 98.71% AUC versus 81% average accuracy.